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MIFF’s third-party ticketing platform Ferve Tickets was hacked, exposing the personal information of thousands of MIFF customers.

Film festival customer data exposed in hack of third-party ticketing platform

Melbourne International Film Festival organisers are investigating the hack, which has affected about 10 per cent of the festival’s total customer database.

  • Roy Ward and Nell Geraets

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Passkeys are more like keys than passwords. You keep them on your device or secure cloud service, and you never have to send them to a website.

What are passkeys? The end of the password era explained

Passkeys are designed to be the end of “remembering” login credentials. And it may be time to accept them.

  • Tim Biggs

The April 4 edition

Older Aussies and the great tech war | Cynthia Banham’s Italian revelation | A love affair with manual cars | Wines to pair with fish and chips

A lack of digital skills in an online world is leaving many elderly and vulnerable Australians on the fringes of everyday life.

I have become my mother’s IT help desk, like millions of other adult children around the country

Turn on MFA. Sign this PDF. CRN number? Password? Swipe up. Scroll down. For many older Australians, dealing with today’s digital world has become a nightmare.

  • Stephanie Wood
The penetration test on the Equestrian Australia computer system was conducted in January 2024.

Embattled Olympic sport hit with legal action over ‘cyberattack’

Strife-torn Equestrian Australia is being sued by its former digital services provider amid a bid to boot out members of the board.

  • Chris Barrett
Michael Clapsis admitted creating a fake Wi-Fi.

‘Double life’: Perth man who hacked into women’s personal data using ‘evil twin WiFi’ jailed

Michael Clapsis used his advanced computer skills to spy on and steal intimate images and photos of scores of unsuspecting women.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
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The catastrophic data breaches that exposed millions of Australians’ personal information at Medibank and Optus revealed a fundamental flaw in how organisations protect data - one that even the best cybersecurity tools can’t fix.

This Aussie start-up plans to make Medibank-style breaches impossible

As the cost of cybercrime heads toward $10 trillion annually, one Australian company is taking a radically new approach to protecting data.

  • David Swan
The Qantas breach, which occurred on June 30, exposed customer names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and frequent flyer information, though no credit card details or passport numbers were compromised. Qantas has obtained an injunction from the NSW Supreme Court limiting public disclosure of affected customer details.

Salesforce defends security practices after Qantas hack

Hackers used AI-powered voice phishing to trick employees into granting them database access.

  • David Swan
Loyola College.

Catholic college students mine dark web to share hacked documents

A Melbourne Catholic school has urged parents to keep their children off the dark web after students shared sensitive hacked data with each other.

  • Nicole Precel
Researchers set up for fake teen ‘honeypot’ profiles. Predators flocked to one

‘Honeypot’ profiles of 13-year-old girls were posted online. Predators flocked to one

The social media account of one child attracted five times more messages from suspected predators than another.

  • Amber Schultz